"Who are you (кто ты)?" he demanded (спросил он).

tongue [tʌŋ], yawn [jɔ:n], archaic [ɑ:ˈkeɪɪk]

Presently she spoke, but the tongue was unfamiliar to him, and he shook his head. She yawned again, stretched lithely and, without any show of fear or surprise, shifted to a language he did understand, a dialect of Yuetshi which sounded strangely archaic.

"Are you looking for someone?" she asked, as indifferently as if the invasion of her chamber by an armed stranger were the most common thing imaginable.

"Who are you?" he demanded.

"I am Yateli (я Ятели)," she answered languidly (ответила она вяло/медлительно). "I must have feasted late last night (наверное, я пировала допоздна вчера вечером), I am so sleepy now (/поэтому/ я такая сонная сейчас). Who are you (/а/ ты кто)?"

"I am Conan, a hetman among the kozaks (я Конан, гетман /среди/ козаков)," he answered (ответил он), watching her narrowly (пристально следя за ней; narrowly — тесно; пристально). He believed her attitude to be a pose (он считал ее отношение /к происходящему/ притворством; pose — поза; притворство) and expected her to try to escape from the chamber or rouse the house (и ожидал, что она попытается сбежать из комнаты или разбудить дом; to rouse — поднимать; будить). But, though a velvet rope that might be a signal cord hung near her (но хотя бархатная веревка, которая могла быть сигнальным шнуром, висела возле нее; to hang — висеть), she did not reach for it (она не потянулась к ней).

"Conan," she repeated drowsily (повторила она сонно). "You are not a Dagonian (ты не дагониец). I suppose you are a mercenary (я полагаю, ты наемник). Have you cut the heads off many Yuetshi (ты срубил головы многим юэтшийцам; to cut off — отрубить, отсечь)?"